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SOMERSET, N.J. – The time is ripe for Catholics to overtake Protestants in terms of book sales and outreach, especially through the Internet and electronic media, according to the director of the Catholic Marketing Network.

WORCESTER, Mass. – After college, Renee Burke-Drazba landed a job in her field and loved it.

Goucher College may not track the faith of its students, yet plenty of opportunities are present for students to tap into their own in between hitting the books.

Young Catholics who choose McDaniel College still have the opportunity to practice their faith.

VATICAN CITY – Pope John XXIII used to duck out incognito and visit surrounding towns. Pope John Paul II played hide-and-seek with employees’ children. And Pope Benedict XVI fills the evening air with notes from his piano.

WASHINGTON – Mark Hart, executive vice president for Life Teen International, also goes by another name: “Bible Geek.”

In my column last week, “Shall We Dance?” I wrote about the just and necessary role that laws play in our lives. From the Ten Commandments to the moral teachings of our Catholic faith, we are better, our society is better, I suggested, for having divine guidance in these matters. I then posed the question: Why then do we view laws with such cynicism and such reluctance? By contrast, in the days of Moses when the earliest representation of law is found in the Bible, the Jewish people not only accepted the vast and sweeping number of laws that governed their daily lives, they embraced them as gifts from God, causing them to dance in the streets with grateful joy. Why can’t we, like David, see God’s providential will in the laws passed down through His Church which seek to protect our society from the sins which would destroy it – including those which threaten the sacred institution of marriage, the very life-giving fabric of our society?

Sandra, as many Hispanic people we find in American streets and workplaces, has a heroic story of faith and courage that is worthwhile to be shared. Her adventure started in her Central American country, when she found out that she was pregnant. Her partner, who mistreated her physically and emotionally, instead of being happy with the news, beat her and told her that maybe the baby wasn’t his. Her maternal love gave her the strength to finally escape from this destructive relationship. The safest thing to do was, with God’s help, trying to reach her cousin, who was working in a restaurant in the United States. With her cousin’s help she could maybe find a job to save her life and her baby’s life.

Back to school? Were we out?